Banksy's Show Me The Monet expected to fetch up to £5m at London auction

<p>Piece is set to become one of the street artist’s most expensive works</p>

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Live art installation sees 220 masked volunteers strip naked at Alexandra Palace

<p>Art installation was staged in the early hours of Saturday morning</p>

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Banksy loses art trademark battle with greeting card company in ‘devastating’ ruling

<p>Judges ruled that mysterious artist’s intent on anonymity did not help his case</p>

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Rembrandt ‘fake’ abandoned in museum basement 40 years ago is likely real, investigation finds

<p>Leading Rembrandt experts previously claimed that painting was produced after artist’s death</p>

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The British Museum removes bust of slave-owning founder Sir Hans Sloane: 'We have pushed him off the pedestal'

'Dedication to truthfulness when it comes to history is absolutely crucial,' museum director said

Aug 2020

Barbara Hepworth: Google Doodle celebrates influential English abstract sculptor

Artist's sculpture garden is located in St Ives, Cornwall

Aug 2020

British Museum undergoes biggest deep clean in decades to remove lockdown dust

Tickets for the first day of the museum's reopening have already sold out

Aug 2020

Pacita Abad: Google Doodle commemorates Philippine artist and activist

Abad shook up the Philippines art scene after winning prestigious award

Jul 2020

Trafalgar Square's new Fourth Plinth sculpture, depicting 'impending collapse', unveiled

New artwork 'expresses something of the fraught times that we're currently living through'

Jul 2020

Protests in Oslo as government demolishes building adorned with Pablo Picasso artworks

Norwegian government building was damaged in the 2011 terrorist attack

Jul 2020